{"id":997387,"date":"2026-03-11T07:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997387"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:03:01","slug":"us-airlines-say-5g-interference-retrofit-could-cost-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/11\/us-airlines-say-5g-interference-retrofit-could-cost-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"US airlines say 5G interference retrofit could cost $2 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A group representing major airlines said on Monday that a plan to expand the use of wireless \u200cspectrum \u2060could cost \u2060more than $2 billion and take at least four years. <\/p>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission advanced plans in November to auction key C-Band \u2060wireless spectrum \u200ccrucial for advanced technology uses and said \u2060it is considering using some proceeds to help airlines replace radio altimeters that could face in-flight interference from spectrum use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A group representing major airlines said on Monday that a plan to expand the use of wireless \u200cspectrum \u2060could cost \u2060more than $2 billion and take at least four years. The Federal Communications Commission advanced plans in November to auction key C-Band \u2060wireless spectrum \u200ccrucial for advanced technology uses and said \u2060it is considering using some proceeds to help airlines replace radio altimeters that could face in-flight interference from spectrum use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}